Height and the High Life: What Future for a Tall Story?

Height and the High Life: What Future for a Tall Story?

(p.418)
(p.419)
14. Height and the High Life: What Future for a Tall Story?

Source:

The Economic Future in Historical Perspective

Author(s):

Timothy Leunig

Hans-Joachim Voth

Publisher:

British Academy

DOI:10.5871/bacad/9780197263471.003.0015

This chapter discusses height as a reliable indicator of health status and standard of living. It also suggests that mapping from height to other measures of well-being has attracted the attention of economic historians. The history of heights may prove to be a useful means by which economic historians can better explain the past. The first area is social history, and in particular family history, in the developed world. The second is the economic history of those countries or areas with limited amounts of other data.

British Academy Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.